Farage: «I expect parties in ECR not to feel comfortable»

- Brussels, 24th of June 2014 - UKIP leader Nigel Farage hopes his new political grop in the European Parliament can become bigger in the next months, he told reporters during the press conference organised to announce the creation of the EFDD political group. It is actually composed by UKIP (UK), Beppe Grillo's M5S (IT), Party of free citizens (CZ), Order & Justice (LT), Union of Greens and Farmers (LV), Swedish Democrats (SE) and MEP Joëlle Bergeron (FR). The group will have 48 MEPs in total. «The creation of this group was not one of easiest things to do, but we managed», he pointed out referring to the difficulties had during the negotiation. The group was possible because of Joëlle Bergeron, former Front National member who joined Farage's project after having complained with Marine Le Pen. Farage now is ready to host other parties, above all those who decided to join the ECR group (that one of David Cameron's Tories). According to Farage in that group, currently the third one in Parliament for number of MEPs, there are parties without nothing in common with institutional parties composing the European Conservatives and Reformist.
«I think there a lot of inconsistencies and some incoherence in that group, so I would expect, between now and Christmas, for some people who join that group, to perhaps not feel specially comfortable in that group». (Emanuele Bonini)